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This seems similar to Applescript. Someone wants to make a precise language that looks like English and can be read and written by non-programmers. Ultimately y
by droithomme 7y ago
This seems similar to Applescript. Someone wants to make a precise language that looks like English and can be read and written by non-programmers. Ultimately you get the reading part, sort of, but writing is harder. You end up with very subtle and precise rules in the grammar which are not as easily inferred correctly as with many common programming languages. Just writing sentences that you think should be correct won't work. You need to fully understand the programming language. So you're back at requiring programmers to work with it.
- iainmerrick 7y agoIt might be great to have tool-assisted writing, where you write naturally and the computer says “do you mean: [pedantic unambiguous version]”. The main risk would be people blindly accepting corrections that actually change the meaning -- just like any other autocorrection system. I’m not sure how to mitigate against that.